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Salt Mine Village, Company Store, Avery Island, Iberia Parish, LA

Salt Mine Village, Company Store, Avery Island, Iberia Parish, LA

Significance: The most important public structure in the Salt Mine Village was the Company Store. This large, frame structure stands at the north end of the village, at a crossroads between the main road to th... More

Granite Railway, Pine Hill Quarry to Neponset River, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

Granite Railway, Pine Hill Quarry to Neponset River, Quincy, Norfolk C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-30 Survey number: HABS MA-150 Building/structure dates: 1826 Initial Construction

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Lackawanna Terminal, Main Street & Buffalo River, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Lackawanna Terminal, Main Str...

Significance: The terminal's double deck train shed, attributed to Lincoln Bush, is considered to be significant as an early example of the innovative use of reinforced concrete. Unprocessed Field note materia... More

Canby Railroad Depot, Canby, Clackamas County, OR

Canby Railroad Depot, Canby, Clackamas County, OR

Significance: The depot is important to Oregon historically in that it is representative of the depots that lined the Oregon and California Railroad and helped to contribute to the growth and settlement of west... More

Raritan Railroad Station, Sanford Street, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Railroad Station, Sanford Street, New Brunswick, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: This one story masonry passenger station was built in 1901 to serve the prospering Raritan Railroad. Essentially intact, this passenger station survives today as one of the two remaining historic ... More

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization System, Long Island Sound shoreline between Stamford & New Haven, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization Syste...

Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-v... More

Pennsylvania Railroad Station Rotunda, Liberty, Grant & Eleventh Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad Station Rotunda, Liberty, Grant & Eleventh Stree...

Significance: The Pennsylvania Railroad Station was commissioned from the office of D.H. Brunham in Chicago, one of the chief purveyors of the new monumental Classicism. Survey number: HABS PA-1175 Building/... More

Pennsylvania Railroad Station Rotunda, Liberty, Grant & Eleventh Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad Station Rotunda, Liberty, Grant & Eleventh Stree...

Significance: The Pennsylvania Railroad Station was commissioned from the office of D.H. Brunham in Chicago, one of the chief purveyors of the new monumental Classicism. Survey number: HABS PA-1175 Building/... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Station & Freight House, 98 Baltimore Road, Rockville, Montgomery County, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Station & Freight House, 98 Baltimore Road,...

Significance: Located on the Metropolitan Line of the B & O Railroad, the Rockville passenger station has served the area's transportation needs continuously since its openings in 1873. A simple, well executed... More

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Significance: Nicodemus, Kansas, represents the earliest and most prosperous midwestern black settlement associated with the massive westward migration of former slaves out of the south during Reconstruction. ... More

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Significance: Nicodemus, Kansas, represents the earliest and most prosperous midwestern black settlement associated with the massive westward migration of former slaves out of the south during Reconstruction. ... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of ...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Hollday, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and developmen... More

Rock Creek Station, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroad, Rock River, Albany County, WY
Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange County, NY

U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange County, NY

Significance: It was established by an Act of Congress on March 16, 1802. Prior to that Act, West Point served as an important defensive fortification since the time of the Revolutionary War. A National Histori... More

Virginia & Truckee Railroad Shops, Between Plaza, Ann, Stewart & Sophia Streets, Carson City, Carson City, NV

Virginia & Truckee Railroad Shops, Between Plaza, Ann, Stewart & Sophi...

Significance: This large building is the most impressive visible remainder of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, one of the most famous of America's Short-Line Railroads. Unprocessed Field note material exists... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, S...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the very few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Holladay, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and deve... More

Town of McPhee, McPhee Road, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

Town of McPhee, McPhee Road, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

Significance: The company town of McPhee, Colorado, owned and operated by the New Mexico Lumber Company, lasted from 1924-1948, serving as an important economic and cultural town of the Delores River Valley. Du... More

Grace Cathedral, Crocker Fence, Along Taylor & Sacramento Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Grace Cathedral, Crocker Fence, Along Taylor & Sacramento Streets, San...

Significance: Constructed in 1877, the Crocker Fence is the only remnant left of Charles Crocker's Nob Hill mansion, considered one of the grandest in San Francixco during the 19th century. The fence is a rare... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Street (at rear of Gray Building), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Stree...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: Erected in 1853, the warehouse is one of the oldest structures in the yard. Constructed by Mueller and... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Southern Pacific Depot, 21 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, San Mateo County, CA

Southern Pacific Depot, 21 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, San Mateo C...

Significance: Frame with clapboarding, 65' x 50', two stories with one-story wings, hip roofs with wooden shingles, bracketed eaves, overhanging roof on first-story level supported by columns on E elevation; wa... More

Montezuma Hotel, Gallinas Canyon, Las Vegas, San Miguel County, NM

Montezuma Hotel, Gallinas Canyon, Las Vegas, San Miguel County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1923 Survey number: HABS NM-28 Building/structure dates: 1886 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74001203

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization System, Long Island Sound shoreline between Stamford & New Haven, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization Syste...

Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-v... More

B & O Railroad, Mount Royal Station, Cathedral Street at Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

B & O Railroad, Mount Royal Station, Cathedral Street at Mount Royal A...

Significance: Built in 1896, this station is a well designed structure of its type, from both aesthetic and functional standpoints. Survey number: HABS MD-193 Building/structure dates: 1896 National Registe... More

Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE

Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE

Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More

523 East Third Street (House), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

523 East Third Street (House), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Significance: Bunker Hill District was developed during the first waves of real-estate speculation and boom that came with the extension of Southern Pacific Railroad to Los Angeles in 1876, and the construction... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, S...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the very few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Holladay, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and deve... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, S...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the very few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Holladay, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and deve... More

Fort Drum, Ordnance Warehouse, Northwest corner of Railroad Street & Ordnance Road, Watertown, Jefferson County, NY

Fort Drum, Ordnance Warehouse, Northwest corner of Railroad Street & O...

Significance: The Ordnance Warehouse is the only relatively unaltered building of this type of structure situated at Fort Drum. The building's original purpose was for the storage of weapons and munitions. The ... More

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Warehouse, Yakima, Yakima County, WA

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Warehouse, Y...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-D Public domain photograph of container, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pettigrew School, Across White River from Highway 16, Pettigrew, Madison County, AR

Pettigrew School, Across White River from Highway 16, Pettigrew, Madis...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The small community of Pettigrew, Arkansas is located forty-one miles east of Fayetteville, on Highway 16. The town is presently only a wide spot... More

Samuel T. Hauser House, 720 Madison Avenue, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, MT

Samuel T. Hauser House, 720 Madison Avenue, Helena, Lewis and Clark Co...

Significance: Samuel T. Hauser went up the Missouri River in 1862, to the head of navigation, Ft. Benton, Montana, intending to cross from there to the gold fields in Idaho. Strikes at Gold Creek and Bannack i... More

Big Four Building, 220-226 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Big Four Building, 220-226 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: Originally three separate buildings erected in 1851-1852. The lower floor was occupied by merchants, three of whom later were associated with the founding of the first transcontinental railway li... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Passenger Depot, Central Avenue, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railr...

Significance: In terms of relative significance, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad was less instrumental to Dubuque's development as the Illinois Central or Burlington lines. This building is thus h... More

Upper Bridge, River Street, spanning AuSable River, Keeseville, Essex County, NY

Upper Bridge, River Street, spanning AuSable River, Keeseville, Essex ...

Significance: The Upper Bridge is one of three nineteenth century bridges within the Village of Keeseville. A two-span, pin connected, high Pratt, iron truss bridge, it is one of the oldest wrought iron truss ... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Street (at rear of Gray Building), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Stree...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: Erected in 1853, the warehouse is one of the oldest structures in the yard. Constructed by Mueller and... More

Raritan Railroad Station, Sanford Street, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Railroad Station, Sanford Street, New Brunswick, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: This one story masonry passenger station was built in 1901 to serve the prospering Raritan Railroad. Essentially intact, this passenger station survives today as one of the two remaining historic ... More

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, West Iowa Division, Creston Station, 116 West Adams, Creston, Union County, IA

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, West Iowa Division, Creston Sta...

Significance: The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is an integral part of the town of Creston, which grew up around the railroads and received its name as a result of its locat... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Lock Keeper's House, Seventeenth Street & Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Lock Keeper's House, Seventeenth Street & Constitution Avenue, Northwe...

1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The lockkeeper's house at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue served the lock that connected the Washington branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the Was... More

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization System, Long Island Sound shoreline between Stamford & New Haven, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization Syste...

Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-v... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Illinois Central Railroad Freight  Depot, First & Iowa Streets, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Illinois Central Railroad Freight ...

Significance: As the oldest of three such freight warehouses built in the railyards near Dubuque's ice harbor, the Illinois Central depot is historically significant for its association with early Dubuque rail ... More

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Dubuque Paper Company Warehouse, 280 Iowa Street, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Dubuque Paper Company Warehouse, 28...

Significance: Typically configures, structured and detailed, the Dubuque Paper Company Warehouse is a representative example of the industrial buildings erected near the railroad yards of eastern Dubuque in the... More

Coffeeville Hotel, Illinois Central & Gulf Railroad vicinity, Coffeeville, Yalobusha County, MS

Coffeeville Hotel, Illinois Central & Gulf Railroad vicinity, Coffeevi...

Significance: From 1906 until World War II, the Coffeeville Hotel played an important role in the business life of the town of Coffeeville. For over seventy-five years it has been a local landmark due to its p... More

Tacony, Neighborhood is bounded by Delaware River, Cottman Avenue, Magee Street, & Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, Neighborhood is bounded by Delaware River, Cottman Avenue, Mag...

Significance: The area within the City of Philadelphia known as "Tacony" is historically significant for its mid-nineteenth-century foundation as the southern terminus of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, ... More

Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE

Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE

Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More

Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Tunnel No. 25, Milepost 133.09, Applegate, Placer County, CA

Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Tunnel No. 25, Milepost 133...

Significance: The Central Pacific First Transcontinental Railroad is a segment of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, built from Sacramento, California to Promontory Summit, Utah between 18... More

Union Passenger Station, Third West & South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT

Union Passenger Station, Third West & South Temple, Salt Lake City, Sa...

Significance: The Union Passenger Station provided joint depot services for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City Railroad, and the Oregon Short Line Railroad. The Chateauesque structure was completed i... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Street (at rear of Gray Building), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Stree...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: Erected in 1853, the warehouse is one of the oldest structures in the yard. Constructed by Mueller and... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Street (at rear of Gray Building), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Stree...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: Erected in 1853, the warehouse is one of the oldest structures in the yard. Constructed by Mueller and... More

Casa Del Desierto, 685 North First Avenue, Barstow, San Bernardino County, CA

Casa Del Desierto, 685 North First Avenue, Barstow, San Bernardino Cou...

Significance: The Case del Desierto and Barstow Depot, designed by Francis W. Wilson and completed in 1911, is significant for its association with broad national and regional themes in the history of railroad ... More

Wessel Van Schaick House, Van Schaick Avenue & Delaware & Hudson Railroad Tracks, Cohoes, Albany County, NY

Wessel Van Schaick House, Van Schaick Avenue & Delaware & Hudson Railr...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-173 Survey number: HABS NY-3121 Building/structure dates: after 1750 Initial Construction

Pennsylvania Railroad Station Rotunda, Liberty, Grant & Eleventh Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad Station Rotunda, Liberty, Grant & Eleventh Stree...

Significance: The Pennsylvania Railroad Station was commissioned from the office of D.H. Brunham in Chicago, one of the chief purveyors of the new monumental Classicism. Survey number: HABS PA-1175 Building/... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of ...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Hollday, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and developmen... More

Clara Barton House, 5801 Oxford Road, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Glen Echo, Montgomery County, MD

Clara Barton House, 5801 Oxford Road, George Washington Memorial Parkw...

Significance: The Clara Barton House, dating from 1892-3, is a wood frame, three story structure built originally as a warehouse and headquarters for the American Red Cross. The house is partially constructed ... More

Rock Creek Station, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroad, Rock River, Albany County, WY

Rock Creek Station, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroad, R...

Survey number: HABS WY-55 Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Port Covington Terminal, Coal Pier No. 4, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Port Covington Terminal, Coal Pier No. 4, Baltimore, Independent City,...

Significance: The Western Maryland Railway Port Covington Coal Pier is one of the last railroad coal unloading piers in Baltimore. During the Pier's operational life (1921-1974), it went from representing the ... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, S...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the very few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Holladay, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and deve... More

Fort Drum, Ordnance Warehouse, Northwest corner of Railroad Street & Ordnance Road, Watertown, Jefferson County, NY

Fort Drum, Ordnance Warehouse, Northwest corner of Railroad Street & O...

Significance: The Ordnance Warehouse is the only relatively unaltered building of this type of structure situated at Fort Drum. The building's original purpose was for the storage of weapons and munitions. The ... More

Fort Drum, Ordnance Warehouse, Northwest corner of Railroad Street & Ordnance Road, Watertown, Jefferson County, NY

Fort Drum, Ordnance Warehouse, Northwest corner of Railroad Street & O...

Significance: The Ordnance Warehouse is the only relatively unaltered building of this type of structure situated at Fort Drum. The building's original purpose was for the storage of weapons and munitions. The ... More

Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Market Street, West Chester, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Market Street, West Chester, Chester Co...

Survey number: HABS PA-246 Building/structure dates: ca. 1875 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: before 1962 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1968 Demolished

Union Passenger Station, Third West & South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT

Union Passenger Station, Third West & South Temple, Salt Lake City, Sa...

Significance: The Union Passenger Station provided joint depot services for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City Railroad, and the Oregon Short Line Railroad. The Chateauesque structure was completed i... More

Chellberg Farm, 900 North Mineral Springs Road, Porter, Porter County, IN

Chellberg Farm, 900 North Mineral Springs Road, Porter, Porter County,...

Significance: Built in 1885, the Chellberg farmhouse, with its typical T-shape gable-and-wing plan, is one of the few farmsteads which remain intact from the early Swedish immigrants who settled Baillytown, Ind... More

Santa Fe Railroad Depot, 101 Garrard Boulevard, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Santa Fe Railroad Depot, 101 Garrard Boulevard, Richmond, Contra Costa...

Significance: The original building was constructed to serve as a combination passenger depot, freight warehouse, and administrative office to serve the Santa Fe Railway facilities. Survey number: HABS CA-2342... More

Canada Dry Bottling Plant, 1201 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Canada Dry Bottling Plant, 1201 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Mont...

Significance: The bottling plant exemplifies Montgomery County's progressive development as a suburban community, with Silver Spring replacing many of the Washington D. C. commercial/industrial "downtown" funct... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Wissahickon Creek Viaduct, Spanning Wissahickon Creek, north of Ridge Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Wissahickon Creek Viaduct, Spanning W...

Significance: The Wissahickon Creek Viaduct marks the beginning of a resurgence in major stone arch bridge construction on American railroads after the panic of 1873. Unprocessed Field note material exists for... More

Old Frisco Depot, 550 West Dickson, Fayetteville, Washington County, AR

Old Frisco Depot, 550 West Dickson, Fayetteville, Washington County, A...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The numbers nailed above the front door give the street address 550 West Dickson not well known as addresses go, but surely affixed to one of the most popular... More

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, Crossing Wolf Creek at Milepost 339.78, Chama, Rio Arriba County, NM

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Juan Extension, Wolf Creek Trestle, ...

Significance: The San Juan Extension (SJE) of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG), now known as the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS), is a relatively unchanged survivor of the first years of railroad... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of ...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Hollday, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and developmen... More

Helper Commercial District, Carbon Hotel, 258 South Main Street, Helper, Carbon County, UT

Helper Commercial District, Carbon Hotel, 258 South Main Street, Helpe...

Significance: This district represents Helper's development as a town that was primarily the result of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and the mining of the surrounding bituminous coal fields. Helper also serv... More

Deer Creek Dam, CCC Government Camp, West side of U.S. Highway 189, north of railroad overpass and 2,000 feet southwest of Deer Creek Dam, Charleston, Wasatch County, UT

Deer Creek Dam, CCC Government Camp, West side of U.S. Highway 189, no...

Significance: The government camp for Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers was established southwest of the Deer Creek Dam site in 1938 and was disbanded in 1941 with the completion of the dam's constructi... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, S...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the very few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Holladay, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and deve... More

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garland, Box Elder County, UT

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...

Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... More

Canby Railroad Depot, Canby, Clackamas County, OR

Canby Railroad Depot, Canby, Clackamas County, OR

Significance: The depot is important to Oregon historically in that it is representative of the depots that lined the Oregon and California Railroad and helped to contribute to the growth and settlement of west... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Street (at rear of Gray Building), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Stree...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: Erected in 1853, the warehouse is one of the oldest structures in the yard. Constructed by Mueller and... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Street (at rear of Gray Building), Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Stree...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: Erected in 1853, the warehouse is one of the oldest structures in the yard. Constructed by Mueller and... More

Christopher Johnson Cottage, State Route 126, Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA

Christopher Johnson Cottage, State Route 126, Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA

Significance: The Christopher Johnson Cottage is a one and one-half story frame building dating to about 1764-74. Sometime between the HABS photographs of the 1930s and the image taken in 1979, a door opening o... More

Tobacco Redrying Plant, Railroad Avenue, Lake City, Florence County, SC

Tobacco Redrying Plant, Railroad Avenue, Lake City, Florence County, S...

Significance: A significant complex of early 20th century brick buildings and structures associated with the production and processing of tobacco in South Carolina. Survey number: HAER SC-12 Building/structur... More

Penfield Elevators, West Elevator, Front Street, Penfield, Champaign County, IL

Penfield Elevators, West Elevator, Front Street, Penfield, Champaign C...

1986 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The West Elevator was constructed shortly after the arrival of the Havana, Rantoul and Eastern Railway in 1878, which eventually became part of th... More

Pennsylvania Station, New York Terminal Service Plant, 250 West Thirty-first Street, New York, New York County, NY

Pennsylvania Station, New York Terminal Service Plant, 250 West Thirty...

Significance: The New York Terminal Service Plant was constructed as an integral component of the original Pennsylvania Station complex and served as a power generation and control center for the station, its t... More

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, WY

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of ...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Hollday, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and developmen... More

Erie Railway, North Tonawanda Station, North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Freighthouse, 201-211 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Freighthouse, 201-211 ...

Significance: This Commercial Italianate style structure was constructed in 1879, and substantially enlarged in 1905, the Milwaukee Road Freight House was the city's first major railroad freight depot. It was ... More

City of Altoona, Altoona, Blair County, PA

City of Altoona, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Written data pages include photocopies of maps & charts. Survey number: HABS PA-5784 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction

Raritan Railroad Station, Sanford Street, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ

Raritan Railroad Station, Sanford Street, New Brunswick, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: This one story masonry passenger station was built in 1901 to serve the prospering Raritan Railroad. Essentially intact, this passenger station survives today as one of the two remaining historic ... More

Canada Dry Bottling Plant, 1201 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

Canada Dry Bottling Plant, 1201 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Mont...

Significance: The bottling plant exemplifies Montgomery County's progressive development as a suburban community, with Silver Spring replacing many of the Washington D. C. commercial/industrial "downtown" funct... More

Casa Del Desierto, 685 North First Avenue, Barstow, San Bernardino County, CA

Casa Del Desierto, 685 North First Avenue, Barstow, San Bernardino Cou...

Significance: The Case del Desierto and Barstow Depot, designed by Francis W. Wilson and completed in 1911, is significant for its association with broad national and regional themes in the history of railroad ... More

Southern Pacific Passenger Depot, Tokay Arch, Pine & Sacramento Streets, Lodi, San Joaquin County, CA

Southern Pacific Passenger Depot, Tokay Arch, Pine & Sacramento Street...

Survey number: HABS CA-2694-A Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Fairmont Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Fairmont, Marion County, WV

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Fairmont Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River...

Significance: The first all-metal bridge on the Fink plan, its detailing influenced the development of pin-connection in American bridges. Longest iron bridge in the United States in 1852. Survey number: HAER... More

Big Four Depot, 10 South Second Street, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, IN

Big Four Depot, 10 South Second Street, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, ...

Significance: The building is significant as an example of early twentieth century commercial architecture and for its association with transportation history in the midwest. The Big Four Depot in Lafayette is... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Tracks & Shed, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Tracks & Shed, 800 North Alameda...

Significance: Union Station has been designated Los Angeles Cultural History Landmark No. 101. In 1980, it was entered on the National Register of Historic Places. The statement of significance from the Natio... More

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Station, Smithfield & Carson Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Station, Smithfield & Carson Streets, Pittsburg...

Significance: The best preserved of the large Pittsburgh railway stations still extant. Survey number: HABS PA-1231 Building/structure dates: 1898-1901 Initial Construction

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS

Significance: Nicodemus, Kansas, represents the earliest and most prosperous midwestern black settlement associated with the massive westward migration of former slaves out of the south during Reconstruction. ... More

Hotel Charles, 1741-1767 Main Street & 9-17 Frank B. Murray Street, Springfield, Hampden County, MA

Hotel Charles, 1741-1767 Main Street & 9-17 Frank B. Murray Street, Sp...

Significance: The Hotel Charles complex was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1983 as a contributing structure in the Downtown Springfield Historic Resources Area (63 properties... More

Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenue (Canton area), Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...

Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More

Virginia & Truckee Railroad Shops, Between Plaza, Ann, Stewart & Sophia Streets, Carson City, Carson City, NV

Virginia & Truckee Railroad Shops, Between Plaza, Ann, Stewart & Sophi...

Significance: This large building is the most impressive visible remainder of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, one of the most famous of America's Short-Line Railroads. Unprocessed Field note material exists... More

Trenton House Hotel, 20-24 North Warren Street & 1-19 East Hanover Street, Trenton, Mercer County, NJ

Trenton House Hotel, 20-24 North Warren Street & 1-19 East Hanover Str...

Significance: The Trenton House was one of Trenton's most famous and prestigious hotels in the 19th century, serving politicians in town for the work of the state legislature and travelers who arrive at the nea... More

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